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Monday, August 31, 2015

Best Covers of the Week, Vol. 89

The level of detail here is simply superb, and the contrast in color is really nice. This one is about as intriguing as covers get!

The Dark Tower: The Drawing of Three: The Lady of Shadows #1by Nimit Malavia

While it also wins the award for most unnecessarily long title, this cover is pretty fantastic. It’s gory and unnervingly erotic, with a lot of interesting design elements going on. Certainly one of the most eye-catching on stands this week.

Aliens Vampirella #1by Gabriel Hardman

Hartman is really excellent at riding a fine line between realism and impressionism, and it makes for a seriously cool cover here. The perspective also lends the image a sense of being immense!

Dark Corridor #2by Rich Tommaso

I love when a cover takes
this sort of classic approach, opting to sort of tell a story in silent
montage style. Gorgeous and wonderful!

Detective Comics #44by Cliff Chiang

Oh
my God, who would not read this ongoing series? The retro style,
framing, and beautiful colors make this one a shoe-in, and one of my
favorites of the year so far!

Material #4by Tom Muller

Material and Muller continue to put out some of the most unique covers in comics today. This one evokes such a strong sense of animal rage; interesting to stress a tone or mood rather than a preview of events in the story.

Miracle man by Gaiman and Buckingham #1by Mark Buckingham

This is just so beautiful! So many wonderful elements, from the fantastic design and layout, the mixed media 3d bit that adds depth, the typography…really well done.

Plutona #1by Emi Lenox

Lenox has a style that is very complementary to Lemire’s, which should make this series quite interesting. But the cover: the character work is very nice, and the purple watercolor background really adds a sense of ominous mystery to the scene.

Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde #3by Yasmine Putri

This one is about as fun as they come. From the Earth-as-a-bomb concept to the great facial cartooning to the exaggerative exclamation points, it pops with sensationalism.

That's it for this week. What did I miss? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook!